Fewer on Food Stamps, but Hunger Persists

“Ken Regal, executive director of Just Harvest, a Pittsburgh anti-hunger organization, tells The AmericanProspect that after the draft order (which was leaked to the Post), ‘the [immigrant] applications we handled plummeted to zero. Most of the people in that category were undocumented parents of citizen children.’ He adds that many Pittsburgh-based immigrant organizations advised their clients not to apply for SNAP and stopped sending people to Just Harvest, and with good reason….”